Seward's example is particularly valuable since OED's first quotation is from Cotgrave's dictionary, and she thus provides the first non-dictionary, 'real' usage of arrested ('stopped', 'checked') as a past participle adjective. Incidentally, Seward's use of embay here is picked up directly from Cook's own account, which she quotes in a footnote to the previous page: 'After running four leagues this course, with the ice on our starboard side, we found ourselves quite embay'd'.

Seward is probably quoting Lycidas, which supplies OED's 1637 quotation ('1637 MILTON Lycidas 94 Every gust..That blows from off each beaked promontory'); she refers to Lycidas in a note on the same page.

OED1/2notes that this usage is 'Now only rhet. or poet. (or dial.)' and defines (s.v. sense 1b) 'spec. Of the skin or complexion, or of persons in respect of these'. As often, OED's other quotations point to the tradition of poetic diction in which Seward writes.

blasting

'"DEATH, on his pale Horse", with baleful smile, / Smote with its blasting hoof the frighted plains' (Llangollen Vale, With Other Poems, p. 2)